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Pre-weekend Humor: Ms. Feiss Speaks

Ok, so I'll freely admit that I was one of those people who was totally cracked up by the Ellen Feiss switch ad. I know that some, like Caesar, didn't quite understand the Feiss phenomenon, but I thought the ad was great. Anyway, I noticed over on /. that someone has managed to score an interview with her, and even though the server is currently choking from the traffic volume I was able to read the interview. It's actually pretty good. I didn't laugh until I was done with the interview, and then I just cracked up. It fits quite well with the commercial--imagine what Ellen might say if, instead of her PC suddenly eating her homework assignment, she came back from vacation and found that she was suddenly world famous. "It's like, whatever," is her general sentiment, and in that respect she's so much cooler (in a disaffected geek sort of way) than Britney, Christina, and rest of the recent string of bionically engineered, Madison Avenue-packaged, fame-starved flavors of the nanosecond.

(I realize that I just dedicated an entire news post on the front page of Ars Technica to an over-written pop culture dissection of Ellen Feiss. I promise, Ars is not turning into Salon, so I won't let it happen again. You may now return to your regularly scheduled tech programming.)